Re: PATCH: Fix linkonce for ELF/PPC.

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:24:34AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > 
> > I think I found the reason. For ELF/PPC, you cannot change the
> > relocation type of a relocation against removed a linkonce section
> > to R_PPC_NONE.

Why is that so?  Is there some relocation type that must be kept?

> That means we may have to introduce a new function
> > to let each ELF target decide what to do with relocations against
> > against removed linkonce sections. We can add something like
> > 
> > bfd_vma
> > bfd_elf_removed_linkonce_r_info (abfd, r_info);
> >    bfd *abfd;
> >    bfd_vma r_info;
> > {
> >   return ELF_R_INFO (0, 0);
> > }
> > 
> > Each backend can override it if necassry. Alan, could you please look
> > into it?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> This patch is against the today's CVS. Any comments?

I think it would be better to fix the ppc backend so that R_NONE relocs
don't cause a problem.  I find it curious that the ppc backend, which
offends rather badly when it comes to generating R_*_NONE relocs, can't
handle them.

Alan